Look, I’m not going to sit here and pretend like the entire world didn’t know this was happening next week, but is a bit of theatrics too much to ask? Google learned a few years back that the best way to juice a product hype cycle is to “leak” the thing yourself, and here here we are, facing down a tweet that leaves very little to the imagination. The short video shows the company’s upcoming Pixel Foldable unfolding slowly from every conceivable angle.
Google’s using Star Wars Day as an excuse to fire up the old hype train, but the truth of the matter is it’s priming up the pump with less than a week before it returns to Shoreline for an in-person I/O.
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